Improved machine for



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVED MACHINE Fon F|| |NG BOTTLES.

, Speciiicntion forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,516, dated November 3, 1863.

To all whom t may coleccion- Be itknown thatI, Dr. WILLIAM M. TATE, of

v Zanesville, in the countyot' Muskingum and Stateof Ohio, have yinvented a new and usei'ul Machine for Filling Bottles with Oil 'and other Similar Fluids; andI doherebydeclarc that the following is -a full, clear, and exactv description ofthe construction and operation bottles; G, lever for purposes olt forcing dow'n the plunger; H, spring for withdrawing plunger. Plunger E has la small hole running perpendicularly through it, which is openwhen it lirst is pressed down andthenclosed with a small plug. (Not shown in the drawings.) I is a bottle in position for receiving oil;y AK,a block or frame around the cylinder to keep the -same in place.

The mode of operating the machine lis as followsz.-The reservoir or cylinder F (the tube-at the bottom being first closed by a.

cork or in some other suitable mannerlis lled nearly full of oil or other similar fluid, and the plunger E, placed on the surface ofthe oil, with the small hole through ,the plunger open. Pressure is then applied to the lever G be# fore the cork at the bottom is removed, and

the plunger pressed down a short distance intothe cylinder, by means of which a small portion pf the oil will arise either through the hole in the plunger or along its side, and.

will remain on the top of the vsides of the plunger.. .The hole in the plunger is stopped, and -thecork from the .bottom removed, im-

mediately after the spring H has lifted'the plunger, which it does as soon as the pressure from the lever is rem0ved. The lbottle I is then vplaced'under the tube at the bottom of the] cylinder or reservoir, pressure applied to the lever until the bottle is lled, when pressure is removed and the spring yelevates the plunger. The filled bottle 'is then removed,

another empty one is placed under the tube,V

and the same process isl repeated until the reservoir or cylinder is. empty, when it is againA filled-and the process rept-.ated as long as necessary. v

It Ais perhapsv necessary to say'l tbat'after Y the reservoir or`cylinder is-tilled and the plunger makes its first deseentinto it, and the small hole in the .plunger stopped, as above described, the attraction or cohesion of the face of the plunger on the surface of the oil,

or the removalfof the pressure of the atmosphere from the surface of the oil, or some other thing not perhaps sufficiently understood by myself `to describe, .prevents the oil from exuding or4 coming outot' the tube, during the time it takes to remove a full bottle and replace itwith an empty one.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire I The arrangement and combination of the sprin g, lever, plunger, and cylinder described, 'and theother parts of the machineby which the ei'ect is produced, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM M. TATE..v v

4Witnesses:

` WM. KEITH,

1F. A. SEBORN. 

